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Ruben Geert van den Berg

Edit font for TITLE with syntax?

Dear all,

Is it possible to edit the font for a TITLE in the viewer with syntax (possibly basic Python or extension command)? Simply put, I think TITLES are usually too small to draw a reasonable amount of attention and I really don't feel like editing them manually.

TIA!

Ruben

Albert-Jan Roskam

Re: Edit font for TITLE with syntax?

>Dear all,
>
>
>Is it possible to edit the font for a TITLE in the viewer with syntax (possibly basic Python or extension command)? Simply put, I think TITLES are usually too small to draw a reasonable amount of attention and I really don't feel like editing them manually.
>
>
>TIA!
>
>
>Ruben
>

Perhaps you could use the TEXT extension command instead, although I doubt that this repeats across pages.

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Jon K Peck

Re: Edit font for TITLE with syntax?

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You can use the SPSSINC MODIFY OUTPUT extension command for this or the equivalent underlying scripting apis.

Jon Peck (no "h") aka Kim
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From: Ruben van den Berg <[hidden email]>
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Date: 10/25/2012 12:19 AM
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Dear all,

Is it possible to edit the font for a TITLE in the viewer with syntax (possibly basic Python or extension command)? Simply put, I think TITLES are usually too small to draw a reasonable amount of attention and I really don't feel like editing them manually.

TIA!

Ruben

Ruben Geert van den Berg

Re: Edit font for TITLE with syntax?

Thank you Jon and Albert-Jan!

But what's the OMS command identifier? If I try to copy-paste it, I get an empty string. (Screenshot: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/116120595/err_spss_copy_oms_cmd_id.jpg). Under "OMS identifiers" I didn't find any entry for neither "TITLE" nor "PAGE TITLE".

TIA,

Ruben

Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 06:55:30 -0700
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You can use the SPSSINC MODIFY OUTPUT extension command for this or the equivalent underlying scripting apis.

Jon Peck (no "h") aka Kim
Senior Software Engineer, IBM
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Jon K Peck

Re: Edit font for TITLE with syntax?

Note first that there are some preference settings under Edit >Options>Viewer and settings under View >Outline Font that may be helpful.

If you want more specific control, MODIFY OUTPUT will do it. OMS SUBTYPES only apply to tables, not titles, but you can use the OMS command identifier to select appropriate commands.

MODIFY OUTPUT doesn't have built-in explicit font settings, but you can use html or rtf font specifications with the replace text option to set font family and size. Here's an example.

SPSSINC MODIFY OUTPUT PAGETITLES TITLES
/IF PROCESS=ALL
/REPLACE ITEMS itemtitle="<html>\\1</html>" outlinetitle="<html> \\1</html>".

In this expression, \\1 stands for the existing text for the title.
You can use this for font style and for different parts of the titles, since the replacement text can be arbitrary html or rtf. You could, for example, make certain words bold or italic.

If you wanted this change to apply only to, say, titles in regression commands, you could write the IF subcommand as
/IF COMMAND="regression" PROCESS=ALL.

HTH,
Jon

Jon Peck (no "h") aka Kim
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From: Ruben van den Berg <[hidden email]>
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Date: 10/25/2012 07:18 AM
Subject: Re: [SPSSX-L] Edit font for TITLE with syntax?
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Thank you Jon and Albert-Jan!

But what's the OMS command identifier? If I try to copy-paste it, I get an empty string. (Screenshot: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/116120595/err_spss_copy_oms_cmd_id.jpg). Under "OMS identifiers" I didn't find any entry for neither "TITLE" nor "PAGE TITLE".

TIA,

Ruben

Ruben Geert van den Berg

Re: Edit font for TITLE with syntax?

Dear Jon,

That helps a lot indeed!

However, I was a little surprised by the tag since I believe it's deprecated and will be removed from HTML5. I tried it with a "style" attribute with CSS parameters but this was ignored. What kind of HTML/CSS does SPSS use? Is this going to change anytime soon or can I safely keep using the tag for another while?

Thanks!

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Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 08:19:05 -0700

Note first that there are some preference settings under Edit >Options>Viewer and settings under View >Outline Font that may be helpful.

If you want more specific control, MODIFY OUTPUT will do it. OMS SUBTYPES only apply to tables, not titles, but you can use the OMS command identifier to select appropriate commands.

MODIFY OUTPUT doesn't have built-in explicit font settings, but you can use html or rtf font specifications with the replace text option to set font family and size. Here's an example.

SPSSINC MODIFY OUTPUT PAGETITLES TITLES
/IF PROCESS=ALL
/REPLACE ITEMS itemtitle="<html>\\1</html>" outlinetitle="<html> \\1</html>".

In this expression, \\1 stands for the existing text for the title.
You can use this for font style and for different parts of the titles, since the replacement text can be arbitrary html or rtf. You could, for example, make certain words bold or italic.

If you wanted this change to apply only to, say, titles in regression commands, you could write the IF subcommand as
/IF COMMAND="regression" PROCESS=ALL.

HTH,
Jon

Jon Peck (no "h") aka Kim
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Jon K Peck

Re: Edit font for TITLE with syntax?

The html snippets that you can use in this way do not use stylesheets. I can't make promises about the future, but I would not expect such formatting tabs to be disallowed anytime soon.

Regards,

Jon Peck (no "h") aka Kim
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Date: 10/25/2012 11:36 AM
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Dear Jon,

That helps a lot indeed!

However, I was a little surprised by the tag since I believe it's deprecated and will be removed from HTML5. I tried it with a "style" attribute with CSS parameters but this was ignored. What kind of HTML/CSS does SPSS use? Is this going to change anytime soon or can I safely keep using the tag for another while?

Thanks!

Cleland, Patricia (EDU)

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